I hate to admit this so bad, but if you had any illusions that I’m somehow not lame, it’s best we destroy those right now. I graduated college 10 years ago this month. At the time, I felt like John Mayer’s “No Such Thing” was written just for me. (Every time I hear even just the first few chords, I’m immediately 23 and sitting in the small backyard behind my college apartment with naive notion that I have the ability to kick life in the teeth.)

Mayer’s done little to impress me since. But here we are a decade after I sat out into the world and the song I can’t get enough one is another Mayer diddy. This one’s Shadow Days.

– Franklin D. Roosevelt.

Give a Type-A personality a glue gun. My friend Roddy is one of those people who can — and does — do everything. He’s organized, creative, analytical, sweet, effective, efficient. One of those well-rounded, fun-to-be-around people whose many layers of awesome are inspiring not annoying.

Roddy took the reins for planning his birthday party. A particularly cool touch was a jelly bean-encrusted picture frame he hand-crafted. Friends passed it around and stood inside it to have the hilarious and creative poses that ensued photographically preserved.

Martha Stewart, you’d be proud. But if I see this idea show up on your show, Roddy will take you down. In a charming, classy way, of course.

This is cool. Science, while interesting, was always a difficult subject for me. So I’m not entirely confident I could tell you exactly what is happening. But there are collisions and explosions and cool sounds and space and stuff. Those are all awesome things. Plus, according to NASA, it’s educational.

Author and documentarian Douglas Rushkoff has an interesting view about the economy and how the richest people should not be vilified, but recruited to remake how society and economics play off of each other. He puts his argument forward in the CNN article “A new role for the 1%,” which was made into the above. His idea is based off a summation of history I’d never factored into the discussion on the economy.

– Madam Guizot

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